It Runs But Does Not Find Much.....

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got it running on both my XP Home computers,one HP and
one Compaq both factory preinstalled operating systems.On
the first run of each it found five items on one and four
on the other machine.After the updates were downloaded it
found no spyware (Known)on successive sweeps but running
AdAware SE Personal found over twenty-five items each
time after a Microsoft sweep..So it either does not get
the spyware or likes the ones the other programs consider
bad.The beta version of of this program I recall came
from MS purchase of Giant Software in December 2004.It
seems like it has possibilities for a good program but
for my liking it has to remove ALL spyware and adaware
even the ones that Microsoft partners ect. install have
to be removed or it is no good.No user shopuld be
subjected to any of it while on the net unless they
invite it in.I wil continue running it until expiration
but am logging all the items that the beta version does
not get and so far it is a ton of them
 
Hi Wolf,
In the Beta1 version, the program doesn't go into the cookie jar, nor does
it chase data miner objects. If you compare those numbers, I think you'll
see a balance between the two.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
 
So--check your logs. How many of the items found are cookies? (data miners
are a synonym for cookie.)

This is a chief difference in detections at the moment. Microsoft
Antispyware doesn't scan cookies in the beta builds distributed so far.
 
I find the same thing. I run it first to see what it
picks up and it finds nothing most of the time. I ran my
stystem with it and Ad Aware turned off to see what would
turn up and got no hits from MS when running the
software. Then I run Ad Aware SE and it finds 4 critical
objects. As noted in this thread, the critisal objects
are generallly data miners. I assume MS will be looking
for these as well when it gets out of Beta? Or, not much
good in cleaning out from my experience.

Bob
 
This is not so much a beta issue as one of how to do the job right, I think.
Microsoft doesn't view cookies as bad, just as they don't view ads as bad.
So there has to be a clear rationale about what the product will do with
what cookies. I believe they'll come up with something, and we'll all try
it out and compare with the competition and see what we think. I do blow
away cookies that Ad-aware or Spybot Search & destroy find, but I don't run
those products regularly just to control cookies.
 
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